Catalog Managed Tables

[Hubert-Dudek]

Managed Tables, External Tables, Foreign Tables and...

.. Catalog Managed Tables. If you are databricks user, you need to know why they are the best of all!

https://databrickster.medium.com/catalog-commits-make-your-managed-delta-layer-safer-and-more-perfor...
https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/unity-catalog-catalog-commits-databricks

[nidhin]

If UC is now the source of truth for the latest version (not  the delta_log ), what happens to a tool that reads the log directly? Does it risk seeing stale state, since it's not coordinating through the catalog?

[Nidhig631]

This is included with the Databricks managed table; there is no separate catalog managed table.